Cloud Architect - Fairway Independent Mortgage Corporation

At Fairway, we are committed to cultivating, fostering, and preserving a culture of diversity and inclusion. In order to attract, recruit, hire, develop, and retain the very best employees at all levels, Fairway is committed to embracing talent and supporting a culture of inclusivity, reflective of Fairway's Core Values.

The Cloud Architect is responsible for designing, creating, maintaining, and documenting automation standards for code and infrastructure as code releases.

Job Duties:

• Design & implement repeatable automation around our cloud infrastructure: build, test, deploy, and release processes
• Ensure high availability of production services
• Design improvements to enhance the availability of all services and processes
• Create and maintain CI/CD pipelines for multiple projects and environments
• Collaborate with development to understand automation needs and provide solutions
• Automate the delivery of infrastructure services
• Develop and update automation strategies and standard practices
• Evaluate and recommend tools and technologies for automation
• Investigate and resolve technical issues
• Create or edit PowerShell or shell scripts to automate common maintenance tasks and/or new installation tasks
• Manage environments in Azure subscriptions to ensure optimal capacity, performance, security, and availability
• Maintain configuration management tools
• Maintain code repository system
• Develop automation methodologies for infrastructure build and system management activities across platforms and storage systems
• Create and maintain documentation as it relates to system configuration, mapping, processes, and service records
• Work closely with infrastructure, release management, and development to document and maintain deployment standards
• Participate in on-call rotation
• Other job duties as assigned

Required Knowledge and Skills:

• Solid knowledge and understanding of developing specific and realistic goals and plans to prioritize, organize, track and accomplish work.
• Solid knowledge and understanding of current business acumen.
• Solid knowledge and understanding of organizing people, tasks, and activities to yield efficient work flow.
• Solid knowledge and understanding of customer service and intrapersonal best practices.
• Solid knowledge of Artifact repositories such as JFrog, Artifactory, and Nexus.
• Solid knowledge of scripting software, PowerShell
• Solid knowledge of configuration management tools such as Ansible, Puppet or Chef
• Solid knowledge of building software and deploying tools
• Solid knowledge of monitoring tools including Solarwinds, Dynatrace, or AppDynamic

Required Experience

• 5+ years of related experience
• 5+ years experience in software design/development and/or operations. With a base in Development, Systems Architecture, and/or Operations.
• Demonstrated experience with CI/CD pipeline tools, specifically Azure Devlops
• Demonstrated experience hosting applications in Azure.
• Demonstrated experience with Source Control systems, such as GIT and Bitbucket
• Demonstrated experience with Terraform
• Demonstrated experience in deploying web and application servers: IIS, Nginx, Node.js
• Demonstrated experience with database systems such as AzureSQL, MSSQL and MongoDB
• Demonstrated experience in implementing containers such as Docker and Kubernetes

Fairway is an equal opportunity employer & is committed to equal treatment and opportunity in all aspects of recruitment, selection, and employment without regard to gender, race, religion, national origin, ethnicity, disability, gender identity/expression, sexual orientation, veteran or military status, or any other category protected under the law.

What Fairway can offer YOU! 

• Competitive compensation
• Benefits include medical and dental insurance.
• Life and Disability insurance
• Matching 401k
• Employee Stock Ownership Plan
• Paid Time Off plus company-paid holidays
• Employee discounts for wellness, pet insurance, auto and homeowner’s insurance, and MORE!

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